What Not to Get Dad

by epicurious

on 06/08/07 at 06:03 AM

The Internet is filled with Father's Day gift guides.
Hell, we even have one here at Epi. But no one ever talks about what NOT to get
dad. Totally clueless (though well-intentioned) people could very well pay top
dollar for something very very wrong. I conducted a quick search online and
found all kinds of things my dad would hate. The sight of this "Nuts About Caramel Kringle Gift Pack," for example, might make him laugh, but it
wouldn't make him salivate. He likes cheese, and he likes darts, but I don't
think he needs to enjoy them both simultaneously.
Does your family have gift-buying do's and don'ts? What's the worst gift you
ever got, gave, or saw?

I gave my hubby some tupperware that folds up like an accordian so that he could take it camping with him. I thought it was so cool! He thought it was awful! After a while he appreciated the thought that I put into it but still never used them. :(

The best gift I ever got was a harp from my now exboyfriend. The day we met I told him someday I'd like a harp. I thought it was so romantic that he remembered that and gave me one.

I think the best gift I have given my husband is a windchime that is a cymbal with Asian symbols that gongs. He gongs it for our baby when he asks him to. It is very sweet & my hubby LOVED it!

play_with_food
10:13:56 PM on
06/10/07

The most important thing to remember in gift-giving is to give the gift the recipient wants instead of what you want to give... not always easy! The best giftI ever got was my birthday several years ago when my husband went through my whole day from making coffee to going to work and had little post-it notes and small gifts all along the way and then picked me up from work in a limo. All my co-workers were so jealous. It was the time and thought he put into it that mae it so special!

MLindsey1
03:04:44 PM on
06/08/07

After my husband and I had been together for a few years, he got me a fondue pot for Christmas. But I don't like cheese.

mairzi
08:38:25 AM on
06/08/07

My Dad's birthday and Father's Day were close as was a big golf tournament in which he would play annually. So every year my mother and I would go to the best men's clothing store in the area and buy him 3 or 4 new golf outfits for the tournament as presents. Of course, we would charge then all to him.
As he opened box after box of brightly colored golf clothes, he would sit there repeating "You shouldn't be so good to me. No really, you shouldn't be so good to me" all the time knowing he was getting the bill for it all in a few days. But he was always the best dressed man at the torunament.